Posted on 05/08/2004 7:37:20 PM PDT by elfman2
BAGHDAD: UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said he wanted the government scheduled to take over from the US-led occupation June 30 to have only limited powers - a goal he said many Iraqis including some of his detractors share.
Brahimi, who arrived in Iraq on Friday, also stressed that his proposals were only "ideas in principle" which he developed after consultations with Iraqis during his visits to Iraq in February and April.
The proposed government, he said, should be selected before June 1 to allow it to take part in consultations over a proposed UN Security Council resolution expected to define the world body's role in Iraq and the legal status of foreign troops that will remain in the country after June 30.
Last month, the veteran Algerian diplomat proposed dissolving the US-picked Governing Council and appointing a caretaker government of "men and women known for their honesty, integrity and competence" to serve from June 30, when limited sovereignty will be restored to Iraqis, until a general election held by January 31.
He also suggested appointing a prime minister as well as a president and two vice presidents
"These are not our ideas, but rather the outcome of the wide ranging contacts that we made in February and April with hundreds of brothers and sisters in Iraq," Brahimi, responding to criticism of his proposals, told the US-funded al-Iraqiya television in an interview. "What we said were logical things and many of them came from the Governing Council itself."
Trust the UN to remove women's rights, enforce slavery,
and line their own pockets with power, weapons, drugs, women, and money.
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